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Telecoms operators are planning to engage the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) over its plan to increase licencing fees for data protection compliance organisations (DPCOs) to N2 million from N50,000.
The telcos, as major data collection platforms, claimed that the increment was coming at the wrong time.
Speaking with The Guardian, the Chairman of the Association of Licensed Telecoms Operators of Nigeria (ALTON), Gbenga Adebayo, said though there is no issue, the matter needs to be reviewed.
Adebayo, an engineer, who said such fees would amount to multiple levies, among others, noted that most of the telcos agents are just doing simple basic work.
“No issue, actually, except that the NDPC recently said the data collection agency needs to register and pay a fee for that as registration. We feel that such a move won’t…
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